Artist Ambition is a self-moderated joint blog for visual artists to improve their work through specific art exercises. Artists post exercise challenges and share the results. Results will be critiqued upon request of each artist.

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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Coty: My challenge list

Hi there! I am Constanza Ehrenhaus, known online also as Faerywitch. I recently posted in my blog that I was challenging myself to grow as an artist and posted a list of things to study and paint. Angela here saw that list and kindly invited me to join her community blog (yay!)
I have already been asked if it is OK to repeat the exercises in this list, and my answer is "Please do! I would love to see your journey too!" So let me share with you my list:

Composition:
Pyramidal
Spiral
Big group of people
Architecture
one point perspective
two points perspective

Why? Because my compositions are quite the same, and it's boring.

I decided to keep my submission for the Enchanted Visions Project:
Circe, very muted and limited. I chose an earthy palette because I
wanted to keep an “ancient” look, and I used a roman inspired frame.
Also, I wanted to practice fur, which didn’t come out as good as I
wanted, but it is a good first attempt
It was challenging, I hated it for most of the process but towards
the end it started to come together. I do like the final look, with the
frame in place and the wrinkled texture.

4 comments:

Thanks for being the trailblazer, Coty! I don't think the idea for this blog would have congealed in my brain unless I had seen your efforts first. Thanks for joining in and for leading the way! I look forward to seeing how you tackle everything on your list.